Clint leads kayakers to second

Australia's men’s K4 1000m crew, led by kayaking great and Sunshine Coast local Clint Robinson, has won the silver medal at the kayaking World Cup 3 event in Poznan, Poland.

The crew, including David Smith, Tate Smith and Tony Schumacher, continues to show good form heading into the August Olympics in Beijing.

After winning a World Cup 2 bronze medal two weeks ago, the Australians showed further signs of improvement as they pushed the Belarus crew the whole distance to finish in a time of 2:55.485, roughly a boat-length off the gold medal.

“We raced another great event here and you can feel the bond within the group growing stronger every day,” said Robinson, who has effectively been given the green light for his Olympic swansong after Sydney’s Luke Michael lost his Court of Arbitration for Sport selection appeal in the past week.

“We have set ourselves a number of goals and now that we have the first part of the season out of the way we can start focusing on Beijing.”